Connecting the Dots 2014
The Climate, Energy, Food, and Water Nexus
Event Details:
IN CELEBRATION OF EARTH DAY 2014, Stanford experts from a range of disciplines will discuss the interconnections and interactions among humanity’s need for and use of climate, energy, food, water, and environmental resources. Featuring key authors of the new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report on impacts, adaptation and vulnerability to climate change.
Professor Chris Field, co-chair of IPCC Working Group II, and members of the Technical Support Group will provide an overview of their major findings. Stanford students and faculty will lead an interactive breakout session on key challenges associated with climate change. A faculty panel—representing WG I, WG II and WG III—will connect the dots by evaluating some of the ways in which decisions in one resource area can lead to tradeoffs or co-benefits in others. Finally Dr. Gro Brundtland, United Nations Elder, will share her reflections on our common future.
Additional information
- IPCC Working Group II summary report, Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaption and Vulnerability (March 31, 2014)
- Behind the scenes of the new U.N. climate report, with Stanford scientists
- Watch IPCC Working Group II Video
Slides
Climate Change 2014: Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability (pdf) - Chris Field, Katie Mach, Michael Mastrandrea
What Makes Something Anthropogenic Anyway? The Devils in the Details of Climate Policies (pdf) - Aaron L. Strong
So You Think You Can Adapt? Heuristics and Biases in the Perception of Climate Risk (pdf) - Frances Moore and Nik Sawe
Rising Sea Levels: Should I Stay, or Should I Go? (pdf) - Delavane Turner
Speakers
Gro Brundtland, KEYNOTE, United Nations Foundation, The Elders
Stacey Bent, TomKat Center for Sustainable Energy, Chemical Engineering
Chris Field, Professor of Biology, Professor of Environmental Earth System Science
Katharine J. Mach, Sr. Research Associate, Carnegie Science’s Dept. of Global Ecology
Michael D. Mastrandrea, Co-Director of Science, IPCC WG II Technical Support Unit
Lauren Sommer, KQED Public Radio, Science and Environmental Reporter
Noah Diffenbaugh, Environmental Earth System Science, Woods Institute for the Environment
Charles Kolstad, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, Stanford Precourt Institute for Energy
Jon Krosnick, Communications
Terry Root, Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
Break-out Sessions
Aaron L. Strong, Department of Philosophy at Stanford University
Blake Francis, Department of Philosophy at Stanford University
Deepti Singh, Environmental Earth System Science
Dan Horton, Postdoctoral Researcher at Dept. of Environmental Earth System
Frances Moore, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER)
Nik Sawe, Emmett Interdisciplinary Program in Environment and Resources (E-IPER)
Delavane Turner, Management Science and Engineering